– Evan Hill (The Majlis) |U.S. casualties in Pakistan reveal expanding role | Apologies for taking a day to cover the the roadside bombing of a U.S. convoy in Pakistan, but sometimes good things come to those who wait: in this case, a Jeremy Scahill article in the Nation that provides some nice context to the first-ever U.S. military deaths in the country. [Sempre AfPak, adesso tocca al Pak però …]

– [Update] Joseph Mayton (Bikya Masr) | What you didn’t know about the Islamic fatwa | CAIRO: Breast feeding. Yes, breast feeding, was the cause for controversy after Al-Azhar University lecturer Ezzat Atiyya issued a fatwa that suggested women should allow their male colleagues to breast feed in order to limit sexual harassment.